<mt:IfCategory>
A conditional tag used to test for category assignments for the entry in context, or generically to test for which category is in context.
Attributes:
- name (or label; optional)
The name of a category. If given, tests the category in context (or categories of an entry in context) to see if it matches with the given category name.
- type (optional)
Either the keyword "primary" or "secondary". Used to test whether the specified category (specified by the name or label attribute) is a primary or secondary category assignment for the entry in context.
Examples:
<mt:IfCategory>
(current entry in context has a category assignment)
</mt:IfCategory>
<mt:IfCategory type="secondary">
(current entry in context has one or more secondary category)
</mt:IfCategory>
<mt:IfCategory name="News">
(current entry in context is assigned to the "News" category)
</mt:IfCategory>
<mt:IfCategory name="News" type="primary">
(current entry in context has a "News" category as its primary category)
</mt:IfCategory>
Kai
January 8, 2008 1:21 AM | Reply
Hi there!
Is it possible to give the attributes a value with "MTGetVar" ?
Like this?
Cheers kai
The Ursine Calamity
May 28, 2008 5:50 PM | Reply
You can use this tag to display all entries EXCEPT those in a certain category, which is something that was really clumsy before and required plugins and scripts to make happen. For example:
<mt:Entries> <mt:IfCategory label="Special Events"> <mt:else> <li><a href="<$mt:EntryPermalink$>"><$mt:EntryTitle$></a></li> </mt:IfCategory> </mt:Entries>...will return a list of all entries EXCEPT those in the Special Events category.
Conversely, you could use a different set of parameters and have the Special Events Category display differently than everything else. As a simple example:
<mt:Entries> <mt:IfCategory label="Special Events"> <li><a href="<$mt:EntryPermalink$>"><strong><$mt:EntryTitle$></strong></a></li> <mt:else> <li><a href="<$mt:EntryPermalink$>"><$mt:EntryTitle$></a></li> </mt:ifcategory> </mt:Entries>...will return a list of all entries and all the entries in the Special Event category will be in bold type.
Beau Smith
July 30, 2008 2:51 AM | Reply
@kai -- yes, this is possible. Here's an example:
<$mt:Var name="label_name" value="foo"$> <mt:IfCategory label="$label_name"> true if $label_name = foo </mt:IfCategory>